Category: Moffat Road

100 Years Ago Today: Lunatic Threatens to Cut Off Police Chief’s Head

On By RyanIn 100 Years Ago Today, anxiety, Bolshevism, colorado history, history, Local History, Moffat Road, railroad history, true crime1 Comment

Herald Democrat, February 14, 1919 Governor Oliver H. Shoup (shoop ba-doop) was elected the 22nd governor of Colorado in November, 1918, and he was already receiving death threats by February, 1919. "Lunatics" weren't wasting any time. Granted, Shoup's own head was not under threat but that of a proxy, Hamilton Armstrong, long-serving Denver Chief of …

Continue reading 100 Years Ago Today: Lunatic Threatens to Cut Off Police Chief’s Head

100 Years Ago Today: Two Men Killed in Boiler Explosion

On By RyanIn 100 Years Ago Today, colorado history, history, Local History, Moffat Road, railroad history2 Comments

Steamboat Pilot, January 29, 1919 Railroading was so incredibly dangerous 100 years ago. One of the reasons why these old pictures and stories of railroad routes through the Rockies leave me shaking my head in awe is just how much risk there was in building, maintaining, and operating these lines. Engine No. 100, pre boiler …

Continue reading 100 Years Ago Today: Two Men Killed in Boiler Explosion